Gilmoy: Queen as bait, seeing the complications and inviting them. Not sure it's worth all those free tempi, though.

<27..Bxa1> must be a deeply calculated refutation of White's attack. <29..Nd7> (the other one is pinned) is nice: looks crazy, but heck, it's forced. Black coolly returns material, White is suddenly hanging everywhere.

Four queens is a fitting end. Underpromoting to a Rook maybe avoids a stalemate trap :)

Stjef: An epic game, where the complications just keep coming. So many unusual combinational themes. 29...Nd7!, 38...c4! (instead of 38...Kxf8, which I guess most of us mortals would have played). Anyway, Mamedyarovs calculations may have been deep, but not perfect, as it seems that Erdos missed the winning 29. Qe8 Qf3 30. Bf4. But he was short on time, it seemed.

thomastonk: <UrVileWedge: Why not just Nxe6?> Because of 21.. h5. 20. Nd3 is okay, since White remains clearly better. Other ideas are 20.Qd3 or to move the Ra1 from the long diagonal.

White's attack is winning, e.g. 29.Qe8, when 29.. Qf3 is answered by 30.Bf4, curtains. The text move 29.Nd7 looses almost all advantage, and White's next two moves are also wrong. Maybe Erdos was in time trouble.

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scormus: A remarkable entertaining battle, and a near Byzantine position at around move 30. At this stage W was completely in charge, so how did he not win? Do such positions defy the patterns in the players' minds?

<Thomastonk> Yes, certainly W seemed to have a blind spot regarding 29 Qe8. He would still have kept some advantage after 30 Qe8 but perhaps he was chasing Qxf8#. And B defended well

Whitehat1963: Thanks, <perfidious>. I could see some potential replies, but it probably wouldn't have dissuaded me over the board. Yet another example of why I don't have a collection of GM games under my profile!

CMDMB: Looking at some of Mamedyarov's games I see a quality unlike that of other modern players. Incredible tactical vision (exploited beautifully in both defense and attack), creativity, and fearlessness.

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